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Achmed Jones posted:this reminds me- is Ursula leguin actually good at writing? very much so imo
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I read cat's cradle recently and it was good
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the bike manufacturer's wife who keeps talking about hoosiers was a great character
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Oct 18, 2020 07:04
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idk why but Cats Cradle is my favorite Vonnegut book.
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Achmed Jones posted:this reminds me- is Ursula leguin actually good at writing? like on the spectrum of [heinlein, Asimov, mieville, banks-jemisin, bradbury*], where does she fall? She's extremely good, although I think for the most part the Earthsea books as a whole are her most polished works. She has been very influential as well, multiple other books contain "Ansibles" and the first part of Ancillary Justice is one big homage to her. She consistently does this thing where she juxtaposes strange and alien things to the everyday - the opening paras of the left hand of darkness are a good example.
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indigi posted:Octavia Butler goes in that gap I think I read one of her books the other day and it was both pretty well written (for sci fi) and had an awful lot of weird sex stuff (not that the ideas weren't interesting - ideas about power and consent were obviously very important to her)
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haveblue posted:big battlefleet goth gf
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rotor posted:idk why but Cats Cradle is my favorite Vonnegut book. mine is probably mother night or breakfast of champions.
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bluebeard 4 lyfe also thanks for the recs!
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pointsofdata posted:She's extremely good There's also an interview with her where she describes the Harry Potter books as juvenile, derivative, and surprisingly mean-spirited, which makes me love her even more
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Sagebrush posted:There's also an interview with her where she describes the Harry Potter books as juvenile, derivative, and surprisingly mean-spirited, which makes me love her even more lol if oyu've read another book
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Oct 18, 2020 16:09
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harry potter is british of course it’s mean spirited
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Oct 18, 2020 16:44
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the one loving train that consistently runs on time in the british isles and a bunch of kids that could literally magic themselves to their boarding school insist on hogging it
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bump_fn posted:harry potter is british of course it’s mean spirited
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bump_fn posted:harry potter is british of course it’s mean spirited at the end of ww2, the uk was able to get a shipment of bananas for uk children, a very rare treat what with rationing, world war, etc. famed english literaturist evelyn waugh proceeded to eat the three bananas his family was given in front of his children, because the children wouldn’t appreciate them as much as he would
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Oct 18, 2020 17:08
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Evelyn Waughrio Yes you have no bananas edit: lol I promise I'm not actually a Greatest Generation or whatever, making a joke based on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yes!_We_Have_No_Bananas
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Jonny 290 posted:the one loving train that consistently runs on time in the british isles and a bunch of kids that could literally magic themselves to their boarding school insist on hogging it 
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NoneMoreNegative posted:Evelyn Waughrio
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lmao yes
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Oct 18, 2020 17:14
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I just watched Arachnophobia and it holds up. about halfway through I realised the spider scientist was the dude from Warlock, so I'm watching that now. anyone got any recommendations for horror movies?
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SmokaDustbowl posted:I just watched Arachnophobia and it holds up. about halfway through I realised the spider scientist was the dude from Warlock, so I'm watching that now.
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Oct 18, 2020 22:58
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I've always liked Warlock because they somehow pulled off an occult wizard version of the terminator
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SmokaDustbowl posted:I just watched Arachnophobia and it holds up. about halfway through I realised the spider scientist was the dude from Warlock, so I'm watching that now. carnival of souls
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Oct 18, 2020 23:04
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there’s always time for another rewatch of ALIEN (1979)
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https://twitter.com/blendogames/status/1317928977600716801
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oh poo poo does anyone else remember this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-fXK8LYrF2k
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SmokaDustbowl posted:oh poo poo does anyone else remember this barely. not surprising that it's only available as vhs rips of tv recordings
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Oct 18, 2020 23:38
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I really enjoy time travel stories, not like technical ones, but like the concept of being thrust into a world you totally don't understand. the thing is we're literally in the future now, not even a apocalypse would surprise us that much. we have the scientific knowledge so it's hard to think what futuristic thing could phase a currently living person if they got zapped forward in time. lol does this make any sense?
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SmokaDustbowl posted:I really enjoy time travel stories, not like technical ones, but like the concept of being thrust into a world you totally don't understand. the thing is we're literally in the future now, not even a apocalypse would surprise us that much. we have the scientific knowledge so it's hard to think what futuristic thing could phase a currently living person if they got zapped forward in time. lol does this make any sense? futureman was an interesting take on this i guess it kind of did the idiocracy thing but that future tv execs were dumber than anything
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it's like if an old timey person came to our future and was wondering about cars, you could just simplify and tell them it's powered by a small windmill or water wheel and they'd get it. if we were all told we lived in a computer simulation like some Culture poo poo, most people would be like "oh, the matrix"
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i feel like cheap, instant transportation would lead to a radically different world than anything we could expect sure, some scifi authors have played around with the idea, but authors of the past also played around with the idea of ubiquitous instant communication, yet the world we actually live in is still rather alien to them.
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SmokaDustbowl posted:I really enjoy time travel stories, not like technical ones, but like the concept of being thrust into a world you totally don't understand. the thing is we're literally in the future now, not even a apocalypse would surprise us that much. we have the scientific knowledge so it's hard to think what futuristic thing could phase a currently living person if they got zapped forward in time. lol does this make any sense?
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my favorite dumb time travel thing is the set of questions posed by: people A and B are in a relationship. married, loving, whatever person B travels back in time from the future to the present day and attempts to bang person A while present day person B is out at work is it cheating? is it ageism? is it everything above?
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Jabor posted:i feel like cheap, instant transportation would lead to a radically different world than anything we could expect oh you should watch st:disco 3x01 if you like how
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nobody should watch std
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Shaggar posted:nobody should watch std but i hate myself so i would recommend it to no one, it's all internally directed
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